[marknadal]

I get some hate my Open Source project & actively abuse downvotes/flagging to censor me.

But for every 1 hater there are 100s of hackers that have found, starred, used, or told me (in our chat channel) they were thankful they discovered GUN via HackerNews.

& HN guidelines encourage on-topic submissions & comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) "Anything that good hackers would find interesting ... anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" even you have to admit that GUN discussions have sparked a lot of intellectual & algorithm chats.

Finally, you state I'm not spamming then say I am spamming. Spam is indiscriminate posting of something, yet your very own comment says "you always post GUN in discussions about CRDTs & decentralization." That is indeed on-topic according to HN policy.

[dang]

Sorry for the delay, but I only saw this now.

The way you promote your product on HN is so aggressive as to amount to spamming, and you've been doing it for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Nearly every comment you post has some cunning (or not so cunning) promotional reference baked into it. Examples are legion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22252497. Your rare comments that don't include something like this are so boilerplate as to come across as shameless padding.

I asked you to stop this 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17000657. You've kept doing it.

Given that we've banned countless other users for lesser abuses, and given the regularity with which this pattern devolves into user complaints and off-topic flamewars like the current thread and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499177, I think it's time to bite the bullet and ban your account. I don't really want to—which is no doubt why it's taken so long—but you're clearly not using this site in good faith, and enough is enough.

[capableweb]

> I get some hate my Open Source project & actively abuse downvotes/flagging to censor me.

The "hate" (I'd say critique) is not against GUN as a project nor the code or the project itself. It's about you constantly posting about GUN.

> "you always post GUN in discussions about CRDTs & decentralization."

This is a bit unfair, that's not a direct quote of what I wrote, and I'm sure you know this. What I wrote is this: "every post that is slightly related to CRDTs or decentralization". The "slightly" part is important, because many of your comments mentioning GUN is on submissions not related to GUN at all. For example, if a submission is about Mastodon, I'm fairly certain I'll see a comment from you promoting GUN with your usual metrics.

Again, I have nothing against GUN itself, but people do get tired, even if it's interesting the first time, when someone continues to mention their project over and over again.

Others have mentioned this to you in the past as well (one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383815) but it doesn't seem to stick. Maybe it's time for dang or other moderators to have a chat with you, if they haven't already.

Because I'm bored, here is some examples of comments you've made promoting GUN on unrelated posts with low effort content in order to get in a link to GUNs website (in the last 3 months) [maybe this list will help you realize what people are getting tired off]

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22498939

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22448631

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22439616

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22233236

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730879